The results of the 2023 Women’s Home Links Competitions have been finalised and the full results can be viewed here. Congratulations to our District Champions, especially our two National Champions, Janine Saunders (Weedons), 9 Hole Sue Bunt Salver Winner and Jessie Mercer (Avondale) Home Links Junior Net Winner.
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The annual Canterbury vs. Aorangi fixture was played at Ashburton Golf Club yesterday with more players involved than ever. Both the Women’s and Master’s Men’s events were expanded to 10-person teams to allow both provinces to provide opportunities for a wider group of representative players to be involved. The men’s and Junior’s categories maintained their 8-man and 4-man teams respectively meaning there was a total of 32 Canterbury players involved, including 11 debuts.
In the Women’s event, the Templar trophy remained in Canterbury’s hands with the team winning by a margin of 13-7. Four ladies made their debut for Canterbury in...
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Hawarden defeated Boyle Cup holders Scargill 3-2 in a very close match at Scargill on Friday with the result only being decided on the final hole.
It was Scargill's third defence of the Boyle Cup after defeating previous challengers Bottle Lake 4.5-.5 and Hanmer Springs 5-0.The successful Hawarden team from left are Judith Sowden, Jill Allan, Erin Mulholland, Michelle Fletcher and Rose Cassidy. It's been a very memorable few weeks for the Hawarden ladies winning the Cowlishaw Cup and now the Boyle Cup for the first time since 1933.
In line with Boyle Cup Conditions of Play, Hawarden will call for...
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The following players have been selected to represent Canterbury at the annual Canterbury versus Aorangi representative match to be played at the Ashburton Golf Club on Sunday 17 September.
The teams are named in playing order.
Flexi Lease Canterbury Women’s Team
Sora Kishida* (Rangiora)Aroha Minhinnick* (Waimairi Beach)Alisia Ren (Russley)Vanessa Lim (Russley)Mikana Suto* (Rangiora)Zaria Bourne (Waimairi Beach)Lexi Thomson-Hall (Clearwater)Junie Chang* (Russley)Olive Tapu (Christchurch)Mel Newburn (Coringa)
Managers: Debbie Scott & Julie Jones
Canterbury Junior Boys Team
Otis Holland* (Harewood)Max Edwards (Hororata)Uny Shao* (Russley)Louis Edwards* (Avondale)
Canterbury Men’s Team
Tom Lee* (Christchurch)Sam McGill (Clearwater)Cooper Moore (Clearwater)Dominic Brettkelly (Clearwater)Dean Harvey (Pegasus)Scott Manyweathers (Harewood)Peter Lee (Christchurch)David Zohrab* (Templeton)
Managers: Mike Taylor and Kerry Chuck
Canterbury...
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The following players have been selected to represent Canterbury at the Girls and Boys NZ Interprovincial tournaments to be played 2-6 October at Rotorua Golf Club and Cambridge Golf Club respectively.
Teams are named in playing order.
Canterbury Girls Team
Sora Kishida (Rangiora)Aroha Minhinnick (Waimairi Beach)Alisia Ren (Russley)Mikana Suto (Rangiora)Vanessa Lim (Russley)Zaria Bourne (Waimairi Beach)Lexi Thomson-Hall (Clearwater) – Travelling reserve.
Manager: Catherine Palmer
Canterbury Boys Team
U19 PlayersCooper Moore (Clearwater)Yuki Miya (Pegasus)Seb May (Clearwater)Phong Nguyen (Russley) U16Jonathan Fry (Russley)Etienne Collier (Avondale)James Walker (Russley) – Travelling u16 reserve.
Manager: Blair Minton
Congratulations to all those players selected and we wish them all the best for their upcoming Interprovincial tournaments. Results...
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The Canterbury Golf 9 Hole Tournament was played at Templeton Golf Club yesterday in cool conditions, with the sun making an appearance later in the morning.With the course in great order 31 ladies and 1 man braved the wintery conditions and posted some excellent stableford results as follows:
Grade 11st - Claire Ballantyne, Russley ... 23 pts2nd - Sandy McCrone, Russley ... 21 pts3rd - Philippa Lemon, Avondale ... 20 pts
Grade 21st - Diane Gebbie, Tai Tapu ... 22 pts, on countback2nd - Barbara May, Greendale ... 22 pts, 3rd - Jane Trotter, Russley ... 20 pts
Overall Winner - Claire Ballantyne, Russley (pictured right)
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The annual Town vs Country fixture was played at Amberly Golf Club yesterday. With some initial showers soon passing, the day was played in brisk but fine conditions with the course in good shape.
With the event being played in a new trial format in 2023 the opening qualifying round commenced with a shotgun start at 8am with 4-man groupings scattered across the course. Under the day’s format, the opening round stroke scores were used to determine the seeding and in turn match ups for the afternoon match play games with the top-ranked players in each category (Town Seniors, Country Seniors,...
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The Final Results have been confirmed for the Women's National Teams Championship, and it was all so close for the Canterbury District Champion Harewood team of Marie Bell, Amy Liu, Kathryn Maloney and Liz Warren finishing runner-up, 1 shot behind National Champions Rangatira who finished 18 under par.
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On Friday the 11th of August the annual Canterbury Golf Awards Dinner was held at Christchurch Golf Club. With over a hundred people from the Canterbury Golf community in attendance a great evening was held celebrating not only the previous seasons player on-field performances but also importantly the opportunity was taken to recognise those that have given so much to the game locally over many years.
The evening commenced with the awarding of the Eagles Society Promising Girl and Boy of the Year awards which went to Lexi Thomson-Hall (Clearwater) and Etienne Collier (Avondale) respectively. The evening then moved on to...
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The CGI Executive has made a decision to appoint Blair Minton into the new role of General Manager – Pathways and Performance. This new role will be the senior employment position within Canterbury Golf and will report directly to the Executive. Blair will be responsible for the oversight of the day-to-day operations and delivery of the participation, club support, and competition golf aspects of the organisation. The Executive has made a decision to outsource the Financial Administration and Commercial relationship roles and would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Mike Godinet for the work that he has done...
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